You can use [list fromsymbol] to convert the symbol to a list of ASCII values and than work on that. See attached patch, it should do what you want.
Note that the patch assumes that the ending (like .wav) is always 4 characters. Also it uses a simple list-drip mechanism that should be efficient for small lists, in doubt use list-drip of list-abs instead.
best wishes, ingo
On 23/09/17 14:33, Hrvoje Radnic via Pd-list wrote:
Hi!
I would like to display the name of the .wav file loaded from the HDD (using [openpanel]), but, without a full path and without the file extension. For example, [openpanel] outputs "symbol C:/Users/Hrvoje/Desktop/my_patches/SAMP_SEQ/samples/BD.wav" and I just want "BD" to be displayed. Is it possible in pd vanilla? Thank you for the help! Cheers!
Hrvoje Radnic http://soundcloud.com/sumovi-protiv-valova 00385(0)915225162
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